Bag chain attached to computer paper

Abstract

A series of bags having printable areas thereon with the bags secured at their base to a support strip and the support strip is mounted to a continuous support web such as computer paper by a strip of double surfaced adhesive tape supplied between the strip and computer paper with the computer paper thereafter folded to maintain the bags in registry for subsequent printing.

We claim as our invention: 
     
       1. A chain-fed multiple bag construction, comprising in combination: a continuous web of computer paper having sprocket holes at each side;   a plurality of sets of double bags on the surface of the web having printable areas thereon so that the areas can be placed in registry with a printer;   the tops of said bags being in alignment down the center of the web and said adjacent bags attached to each other by lines of weakened tear resistance;   the bottoms of said bags joined by a continuous bag support strip with a line of weakened tear resistance connecting each bag to the strip;   and means securing the strip to the surface of the web laterally inwardly of the sprocket holes so that individual bags can be torn from said strip and be removed from the web after printing is added to the bags.   
     
     
       2. A chain-fed multiple bag construction having the construction of claim 1: wherein said means for securing the strip is in the form of a continuous double faced tape with one face adhered to the web and the other face adhered to the support strip.   
     
     
       3. A chain-fed multiple bag construction having the construction of claim 1: wherein successive bags are separated by lines of separation extending laterally across the bags and said lines of separation extend at least to the line of weakened tear resistance joining the supporting strip to the bags.   
     
     
       4. A chain-fed multiple bag construction having the construction of claim 1: wherein successive bags are spaced from each other.   
     
     
       5. A chain-fed multiple bag construction having the construction of claim 4: wherein said spacing coincides with laterally extending fold lines formed in said web.   
     
     
       6. A chain-fed multiple bag construction having the construction of claim 1: wherein the lines of weakened tear resistance are in the form of perforations extending through the bag material.   
     
     
       7. A chain-fed multiple bag construction having the construction of claim 1: wherein the ends of the bags are sealed inwardly of the lines of weakened tear resistance which connect the bags to the strip.   
     
     
       8. The method of making a continuous series of bags with printable areas thereon capable of being printed by a printer comprising: feeding a continuous web of computer paper to an attachment station;   feeding an assembly of bags to said station with said bags having a supporting strip attached to said bags by a line of weakened tear resistance;   and supplying an attachment vehicle between said supporting strip and the web whereby the bags will be held in registry on the web for printing and will be removable from said supporting strip.   
     
     
       9. The method of making a continuous series of bags with printable areas thereon capable of being printed by a printer in accordance with the steps of claim 8: including feeding a double faced tape between the web and the supporting strip for attaching the supporting strip to the web.   
     
     
       10. The method of making a continuous series of bags with printable areas thereon capable of being printed by a printer in accordance with the steps of claim 8: including severing the bags from each other with a line of severance and extending laterally at least to the edge of the supporting strip so that individual bags can be removed with the strip staying with the web.   
     
     
       11. The method of making a continuous series of bags with printable areas thereon capable of being printed by a printer in accordance with the steps of claim 8: including longitudinally spacing said bags from each other prior to joining to said web.   
     
     
       12. The method of making a continuous series of bags with printable areas thereon capable of being printed by a printer in accordance with the steps of claim 8: including cutting sequential bags from each other and creating a space therebetween prior to moving the bags to the attachment station so that the bags will be spaced on the web.   
     
     
       13. An apparatus for making a continuous series of bags with printable areas thereon capable of being printed by a printer, comprising in combination: means for feeding a continuous web of printer paper through an attachment station;   means for feeding a series of bags interconnected to each other through said station, said bags having a support strip attached thereto by a line of weakened tear resistance;   means feeding an attachment vehicle between the support strip and web in advance of said station so that the bag series will be joined to the computer paper web and printed and be removed from the support strip.   
     
     
       14. An apparatus for making a continuous series of bags with printable areas thereon capable of being printed by a printer in accordance with claim 3: including a suction drum rotatable for carrying the bags from a receiving location to the attachment station.   
     
     
       15. An apparatus for making a continuous series of bags with printable areas thereon capable of being printed by a printer in accordance with claim 13: wherein said means for feeding the attachment vehicle supplies a double surfaced adhesive tape.   
     
     
       16. An apparatus for making a continuous series of bags with printable areas thereon capable of being printed by a printer in accordance with claim 15: wherein said tape is first attached to the support strip and thereafter attached to the continuous web.